An Ape with Evolution on His Mind

apes, Caesar, Charles Darwin, chimps, civilization, Culture, Culture & Ethics, eagles, Evolution, films, franchise, Human Origins, humans, intelligence, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, knowledge, movies, observatory, On the Origin of Species, orangutan, Owen Teague, pandemic, Planet of the Apes, tyranny, universe, virus
“Are you familiar with the concept of evolution?” asks the ape leader who is bent on raising himself to the level of the human. Source
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Astrobiologists Offer an “Information-Based View of the Biosphere”

astrobiologists, atmosphere, biosphere, complex specified information, DNA processors, evolutionists, Gaia, humans, information, information processing, Intelligent Design, life, Life Sciences, nucleotide operations, ocean surface, plate tectonics, PLOS Biology, processing speed, prokaryotes, supercomputers, Titan supercomputer, United Kingdom Centre for Astrobiology at the University of Edinburgh, Universe Today, University of Edinburgh, volcanoes, water, yottabases, yottaNOPS
Even if their estimates need to be revised by a terabase or two someday, they have made it clear that our biosphere is awash in information. Source
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Parables from Nature: A Profile of Margaret Gatty

Alexander Scott, Battle of Trafalgar, British Museum, British Seaweeds, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Black Box, Darwin’s Bluff, dictation, Evolution, George Johnston, humans, Inferior Animals, Intelligent Design, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Lord Nelson, Margaret Gatty, marine biology, Michael Behe, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Parables from Nature, paralysis, Patrick Matthew, ravens, Robert Brown, Robert Shedinger, rooks, Royal Society, Socrates, transmutation, William Henry Harvey
Although she refrained from challenging Darwin publicly, Margaret had strong thoughts of opposition to Darwin’s proposals. Source
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No. 7 Story of 2023: Exhibition on the Bible and Science Opens in Nation’s Capital

Anthony Schmidt, Arno Penzias, Arthur Holly Compton, Bible, biology, Buzz Aldrin, Cambridge University, Catholic priest, Charles Townes, communion, cosmology, Deborah Haarsma, DNA, Evolution, Faith & Science, Fred Hoyle, Georges Lemaître, Guillermo Gonzalez, humans, Intelligent Design, James Gordon, Jeffrey Williams, Johannes Kepler, John Ray, Leslie Wickman, Melissa Cain Travis, Museum of the Bible, Nancy Pearcey, Nicholas Copernicus, Nobel Prize, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, Ota Benga, Pentateuch, Psalms, Robert Jastrow, Science and Scripture, Signature in the Cell, St. George Jackson Mivart, Stephen Meyer, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of Creation, Thinking God’s Thoughts, Total Truth
Tracing the development of science over two millennia, the exhibition challenges a popular misconception about the relationship between the Bible and science. Source
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Sleep — Designed for Our Good

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The evolutionary mindset operates as a major obstacle to the scientific understanding of sleep. Source
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C. S. Lewis’s Prophetic Legacy on Scientism

C.S. Lewis, COVID-19, Culture & Ethics, Faith & Science, freedom, government, humans, ID The Future, intolerance, John West, lockdowns, moral relativism, natural world, physical science, planned society, Podcast, privacy, scientific progress, scientism, scientists, technocracy, Willing Slaves of the Welfare State
As an illustration, John West discusses the COVID pandemic and how that recent public health crisis revealed much of what Lewis warns against. Source
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Must AI Inevitably Degenerate into Nonsense, through “Model Collapse”?

Artificial Intelligence, Arxiv.org, Baylor University, cats, ChatGPT, computer science, COSM 23, Creativity, Culture & Ethics, Denyse O'Leary, Dogs, gene pool, George Montañez, Harvey Mudd College, humans, inbreeding, jackrabbits, large language models, model collapse, Neuroscience & Mind, nonsense, Popular Mechanics, Pornography, recursion, Robert J. Marks, Walter Myers, William Dembski
AI works because humans are real creative beings, and AIs are built using gigantic amounts of diverse and creative datasets made by humans. Source
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Nature Reflects an Intelligent Design — But Also a Moral One

beauty, biochemical systems, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Complexity, David Klinghoffer, Divine Hiddenness argument, divine image, evil, Faith & Science, fine-tuning, food, free choice, George Ellis, Good, humans, information, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, laws of nature, life after death, lifespan, living cell, Nancey Murphy, nuclear weapons, physics, physiological systems, Templeton Prize, universe
Human beings must have freedom of choice if our actions are to have any meaning beyond the impersonal and predictable outcomes governed by the laws of physics. Source
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Fossil Friday: Rapid Elongation of Plesiosaur Necks Points to Intelligent Design

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The breaking of the conserved number of cervical vertebrae is hard to reconcile with an unguided evolutionary mechanism. Source
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